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European monetary union

March 2020

  • Christine Lagarde

    Christine Lagarde under fire for ECB coronavirus response

  • Christine Lagarde

    Coronavirus could cause crash on scale of 2008, Lagarde warns

October 2019

  • European Central Bank holds a news conference in Frankfurt<br>European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi attends a news conference on the outcome of the meeting of the Governing Council, in Frankfurt, Germany, October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

    Draghi bows out at ECB with warning on eurozone weakness

  • Christine Lagarde, Mario Draghi’s replacement as president of the European Central Bank

    The Guardian view on eurozone populism: fight it with fiscal firepower

September 2019

  • Electricity pylons at sunset

    Business leader
    UK blackouts raise questions over private sector’s right to profit from power

    Energy network companies are under scrutiny after last month’s outage, the worst of its kind in a decade
  • The ECB

    Business live
    Trump hits out as ECB launches new stimulus programme to fight recession - as it happened

    European Central Bank has voted to restart its QE programme, and hit banks with deeper negative interest rates to make them lend
  • Mario Draghi called on EU governments with solid public finances to reboot economic growth.

    ECB announces fresh stimulus as eurozone economy falters

    Mario Draghi says bank will reboot quantitative easing in month Lagarde succeeds him

July 2019

  • An investor stands in front of stock trading boards at a private stock market gallery in Kuala Lumpur.

    Business live
    US economy slows to 2.1% annual GDP growth in second quarter – as it happened

    Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news as US figures show slowdown was less severe than expected
  • Yanis Varoufakis

    Christine Lagarde will have to confront Berlin if she’s to save the euro

    Yanis Varoufakis
    The European Central Bank chief must call for an end to the eurozone’s suicidal fiscal rules, says Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece
  • Christine Lagarde

    Share prices rally at Lagarde’s nomination as ECB president

    Move reinforces expectations of fresh stimulus package for ailing eurozone economy

June 2019

  • President Roosevelt at the baseball World Series in 1933.

    Business leader
    Just like the 1930s, this trade war has the potential to turn nasty

    Echoes of that decade are getting uncomfortably loud as Trump imposes tariffs and the eurozone devalues its currency

March 2019

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    The European Union has bigger problems to deal with than Brexit

    Larry Elliott
    The next recession will expose the eurozone as a half-baked project in need of leadership

November 2018

  • Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance.

    Business live
    Nissan to sack chairman Carlos Ghosn over 'serious misconduct' - as it happened

    The Nissan-Renault alliance is in crisis after one of the world’s most powerful auto bosses is accused of under-reporting his salary over many years

August 2018

  • Two young men sit on a hill overlooking Athens.

    Greece may still be Europe’s sick patient, but the EU is at death’s door

    Marina Prentoulis
  • A woman walks past shut down businesses in central Athens.

    Business live
    Greeks must reap benefits after their sacrifices, says EU's Mosovici - as it happened

July 2018

  • An election rally in front of the Zappeion in the heart of Athens in 2012.

    Has Greece finally escaped the grip of catastrophe?

    The country will exit from its final international bailout within weeks but, with no sign the debt will ever be paid off, some fear another crisis

May 2018

  • Martin Kettle

    Threatened by Italy and Brexit, the EU must turn the tide

    Martin Kettle
  • League leader Matteo Salvini arrives at the Lower House in Rome, 28 May 2018.

    Italy can't blame Brussels for its descent into the abyss

    Phillip Inman
  • Trader covers face

    Italy at risk of new financial crisis in wake of coalition's collapse

  • Steve Bell, 30.05.2018

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on EU fears about rising populism in Italy – cartoon

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